Adam wrote on Wed, 23 January 2019 10:23

RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 23 January 2019 08:56 smyth260 wrote on Wed, 23 January 2019 08:36 The Flyers fired Hextall this year and brought in an outside hire for the interim GM role (Chuck Fletcher). Given the Oilers braintrust (including Gretzky) has damaged so much, nobody in that group should be making decisions. If other teams can find an outside hire in a short time, so can we. We just choose not to. Nearest warm body, as always. I want the Oilers to get this next GM right. They haven't done that with the previous guys. So I have no problem letting Gretzky sit in his same office, doing most of the same duties he's been doing, maybe doing a couple more things like call ups that might be considered "GM duties" which aren't going to make a damn bit of difference while they look for the right guy. Are the Oilers a mess? YES but they have McDavid. So good people will STILL want this job. Does this team need some changes, YES. But there are a bunch of good pieces so you aren't starting from scratch. When looking for a replacement, anyone who's actually really good, is not going to either take the job to be an intern GM or leave their current job just to potentially have a job for a few months. The question is - do you believe that the Oilers want to go through the process of looking for a new GM? Or is this just an attempt to slide their favoured person in to the chair without bringing too much heat. They are concerned about the accusations of nepotism so they don’t outrigjt name him at this point. They’ll do it quietly this spring - saying that they thought he did a great job under tough circumstances and he’s EARNED the chance to continue. Is there anyone out there who really believes that Nicholson did a “forensic audit” of the team? Everyone knows what the real problems were with the Oilers and those didn’t change. Yes, MacT wasn’t GM any more but he got job security and now gets to sit behind the curtain with Lowe - part of making hockey-related decisions but not burned in effigy nearly so often. I guarantee that there was no report ever generated by Nicholson. I fear this GM search will be more of the same. They’re going to give it real lip service today and then magically find that the best person for the job is surprisingly the guy who was sitting two offices down. It’s the Oilers way.

Lowe is 100% out of all hockey ops related business, didn’t you hear? Haha fml.

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